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WORK TITLE: Killing Jane
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WEBSITE: http://stacygreenauthor.com/
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PERSONAL
Married; children: one daughter.
EDUCATION:Drake University (graduated).
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CAREER
Writer, journalist, and novelist. Worked as a journalist and in advertising.
WRITINGS
Also author of the true crime books The Smiley Face Killer and Martha Beck: Murderers among Us.
SIDELIGHTS
Stacy Green is a writer and novelist living in Iowa. She specializes in “psychological thrillers and mystery with a dash of romance,” noted a writer on the Stacy Green Website. Previously, she worked in journalism and advertising before becoming a stay-at-home mom and a full-time writer. She earned a degree in journalism and sociology at Drake University.
Green “grew up watching crime shows with her parents, so her love of suspense and psychological thrillers is no surprise,” commented the Stacy Green Website writer. She had an early interest in both writing and reading, especially young adult mystery series starring famed characters such as Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. She was further inspired to write after reading Interview with Vampire, by Anne Rice, the website writer noted. After a diversion into magazine journalism and a stint in the traditional publishing world, Green turned to independent publishing and became a full-time writer.
Tin God and Skeleton’s Key
The first of Green’s self-published efforts comprise the “Delta Crossroads” series, a mystery/thriller trilogy set in Mississippi. In the first book, Tin God, Jayme Ballard is a bereaved mother whose daughter has long been missing. She has told only one person in her hometown of Roselea, Mississippi about her loss, but when that person is murdered, she is thrown into even deeper emotional turmoil. Worse, the style of the murder matches that committed against another of Jayme’s close friends years earlier. She realizes with terror that she is about to be forced to face her past and the traumas it contains.
Skeleton’s Key, the second “Delta Crossroads” book, finds protagonist Dani Evans in the process of restoring Ironwood, a once-luxurious Antebellum mansion. Her work on the house in intended to help her forget a difficult past and to help her put her life back in order. The restoration is derailed, however, when caretaker Cage Foster discovers an old skeleton on the premises. The skeleton is bad enough, but the additional discovery of two fresh bodies makes things even worse for Cage, who fears he might go to prison for murders he didn’t commit. Dani believes he’s innocent and that the murders are connected to the legend of treasure buried somewhere in or around Ironwood. Both Dani and Cage must uncover the truth before they are both drawn into circumstances that could drive them mad—or worse.
Ashes & Bone is the third in the “Delta Crossroads” trilogy.
All Good Deeds and Killing Jane
The “Lucy Kendall” series is another of Green’s mystery/thriller combinations. The first book, All Good Deeds, introduces Lucy, a private investigator with a troubled past. Violence, drinking, and other forms of acting out were common, but they were not random acts: they were, in face, carefully planned to get revenge on her sister’s molester and to get attention from her distant mother. Now, after a decade of working in child protective services, the hardened Lucy realizes that CPS can’t always protect the children under its care. She, however, is more than willing to apply her own style of protection and revenge to the cases she encounters. Forced to accept the aid of a psychopath, she finds that the kidnapping case of eight-year-old Kailey Richardson could put her in contact with Justin Beckett, who was involved in a major case from her past. Undaunted and unwilling to compromise, Lucy plunges forward into violence, madness, and retribution, all dealt out for the benefit of others.
The other novels in the “Lucy Kendall” series include See Them Run, Gone to Die, All Fall Down, and a prequel novella, Hear No Lies.
Killing Jane, the first novel of a proposed new series, features Erin Prince, a rookie police investigator in Washington, DC. Erin is the daughter of a wealthy defense contractor who has contacts and friends in the highest echelons of government. She rejected her privileged upbringing, however, and now she’s facing what could be one of the worst type of copycat killers a cop could face. The murders that keep piling up resemble those committed more than a century ago by the notorious Jack the Ripper. Assisted by her police partner Todd Becket, an experienced investigator, Erin must solve some high-profile murder cases while proving herself as a police investigator.
Green is also the author of the “Delta Detective” series, consisting of the thriller novels Living Victim, Dead Wrong, Night Terror, and Last Words. Her work includes three standalone novels, Into the Devil’s Underground, Welcome to Las Vegas, and Twisted Minds. She also wrote two true crime books, The Smiley Face Killer and Martha Beck: Murderers Among Us.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, November 21, 2016, review of Killing Jane, p. 94.
ONLINE
My Poor TBR, http://www.mypoortbr.com/ (March 6, 2017), review of Killing Jane.
Stacy Green Website, http://www.stacygreenauthor.com (August 29, 2017).*
Stacy Green
Iowa
Stacy Green is the best selling author of psychological thrillers and mystery with a dash of romance. As a stay at home mom, she's blessed with making writing a full-time career. She lives in Iowa with her supportive husband, daughter, and their three fur-babies.
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Bio
Stacy Green is the author of the Lucy Kendall thriller series and the Delta Crossroads mystery trilogy. ALL GOOD DEEDS (Lucy Kendall #1) won a bronze medal for mystery and thriller at the 2015 IPPY Awards. TIN GOD (Delta Crossroads #1) was runner-up for best mystery/thriller at the 2013 Kindle Book Awards. Stacy has a love of thrillers and crime fiction, and she is always looking for the next dark and twisted novel to enjoy. She started her career in journalism before becoming a stay at home mother and rediscovering her love of writing.
Stacy is represented by Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo, Helin and Fountain Literary Management for literary and dramatic rights.
She lives in Iowa with her husband and daughter and their three spoiled fur babies.
Stacy loves to hear from readers! Visit her website at stacygreenauthor.com, or Facebook at www.Facebook.com/StacyGreenAuthor.
Official Bio
Bestselling author Stacy Green grew up watching crime shows with her parents, so her love of suspense and psychological thrillers is no surprise. The baby of a “yours, mine, and ours” family, Stacy grew up in southeastern Iowa where life was always a step slower and everyone knew each other’s name.
A natural introvert, Stacy turned to writing early on, compiling notebooks of stories. She read every mystery she could get her hands on, from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden to Agatha Christie and more. It wasn’t until she read Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire that she realized how deeply she wanted to create her own literary world. A college professor changed her mind, however, and Stacy found herself in the magazine journalism program at Drake University.
After earning her degree in journalism and sociology, Stacy worked in advertising before becoming a stay-at-home mom to her miracle child. She rediscovered her love of writing and wrote several articles for a city magazine before penning her first novel. She shelved the long drama and began working on a suspense book set in Las Vegas, featuring a heroine on the edge of disaster, a tormented villain, and the city’s infamous storm drains that house hundreds of homeless. INTO THE DARK (newly republished as INTO THE DEVIL’S UNDERGROUND) was published by MuseItUp Publishing in 2012 and hailed by New York Times Bestselling Author Diane Capri as “captivating from the first page to the end.”
Her brief dip into the publishing world quickly taught Stacy she was better suited to pursue her dreams of Indie Publishing, and she partnered with a team of high quality designers and editors to produce her bestselling Delta Crossroads Series, followed by The Lucy Kendall Series.
Stacy is blessed to be a full-time writer and follower of her dreams, but when she’s not writing, she spends her time with her precocious daughter, supportive husband, and their three obnoxious but lovable canine children.
Stacy’s blog: http://stacygreenauthor.com/blog/
Twitter: @StacyGreen26
Facebook: Stacy Green, Author
Website: www.stacygreenauthor.com
Killing Jane: An Erin Prince Thriller
Publishers Weekly.
263.47 (Nov. 21, 2016): p94. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2016 PWxyz, LLC http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Killing Jane: An Erin Prince Thriller
Stacy Green. Vesuvian, $26.99 (340p) ISBN 978-1-944109-27-1
Erin Prince, the heroine of this so-so series launch from Green (the Lucy Kendall series), is an unlikely Washington, D.C., police investigator, whose father, a wealthy and influential defense contractor, counts the three most recent Republican presidents as personal friends. Erin rebelled against her privileged upbringing by marrying a man who "turned out to be a kleptomaniac with a juvenile record." She's now faced with her greatest challenge as a cop. Someone has slaughtered Bonnie Archer, a student at an adult-learning center, in a manner reminiscent of the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper. In the attic room where Bonnie's mangled body lies, the killer gouged "Buck's Row" in bloodstained letters into a beam. Buck's Row was the site of the Ripper's first killing. The discovery of a document purporting to be the Ripper's diary provides another link to the historic unsolved crimes, but Green adds nothing new to the Jack the Ripper copycat idea. Odd phrasing ("Sudden tears broiled in Erin's eyes") is another minus. (Jan.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Killing Jane: An Erin Prince Thriller." Publishers Weekly, 21 Nov. 2016, p. 94. PowerSearch,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do? p=GPS&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA471273966&it=r&asid=2721bc08e3345fa1d5e0e743d8b08f20. Accessed 7 Aug. 2017.
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Book Review: Killing Jane by Stacy Green
March 6, 2017 by Victor 2 Comments
book review killing jane coverWHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU’VE EVER HEARD ABOUT JACK THE RIPPER IS WRONG …
A young woman is brutally murdered in Washington D.C., and the killer leaves behind a calling card connected to some of the most infamous murders in history.
JACK THE RIPPER
Rookie homicide investigator Erin Prince instinctively knows the moment she sees the mutilated body that it’s only a matter of time before someone else dies.
She and her partner, Todd Beckett, are on the trail of a madman, and a third body sends them in the direction they feared most: a serial killer is walking the streets of D.C.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING.
Erin must push past her mounting self-doubt in order to unravel a web of secrets filled with drugs, pornography, and a decades-old family skeleton before the next victim is sacrificed.
THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A KILLER IS TO BEAT THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME.
My Review:
Washington, D.C. may have a Jack the Ripper copycat killer loose on their streets. And he may actually be a she.
Erin Prince is new to homicide, having previously worked in sex crimes, and is leading her first case which happens to be high profile. She comes across as weak – it seems that every chapter has her holding back tears that are threatening to free themselves. She becomes unsure of herself when partnered with a new transfer from a Philadelphia homicide division – so much so that she starts to second-guess herself. The constant guilt over her family name and privileged upbringing got tiring real quick, but then again, I’ve never had people question if I got a job because of daddy’s influence. I started to dislike her a bit, although I found her backstory to be interesting.
Todd Beckett, her new partner, is pretty much the only character I liked completely. He’s an experienced investigator and his cool and analytical methodology further highlights Erin’s naivete. I would like to say that he’s the Yin to her Yang, but that would imply that they complement each other – they don’t.
For some reason I didn’t put forth the effort into trying to figure out who did the killings. Every now and then this happens, where I just let the clues accumulate without forming an opinion. In this case I just didn’t notice anyone standing out or, better yet, fading into the background. I was presented with likely suspects, but no one jumped out at me. So suffice it to say I surprised when the mystery was resolved.
The writing and concept were good, but the story was just okay and not enough to keep me engaged. It took me 12 days to finish this – easily at least 10 days too many. In the book’s defense, when I started it, I was in the midst of a reading funk that didn’t end until day 10.
I would buy this book just for the gorgeous cover.
I’ll probably read the next installment in the series to see if Erin has grown in her new role as homicide investigator and to see how her working relationship with Todd develops. I also have another of Stacy Green’s novels, Book 1 in the Lucy Kendall series on my TBR, so hopefully I’ll get to that one soon.
Recommended
3/5 Stars
Title: Killing Jane
Author: Stacy Green
Publisher: Vesuvian Books
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
More Info On: Goodreads
Many thanks to Vesuvian Books, Stacy Green and Netgalley for the ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.